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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2007 10:54:05 -0500
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Stevan Tiefert" <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to prevent make compiling a binary?
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0705070854y1104fc85lc70cff3d23036daa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1178550334.6653.9.camel@vagabund.w33>
References:  <1178550334.6653.9.camel@vagabund.w33>

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On 5/7/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've tar'ed and gzip'ed a binary library. Put on a web-server. Wrote a
> Makefile like the Porter's Handbook describes. It fetches the *.tar.gz
> and so on.
>
> But during the "make install" he asks for a Makefile (I think
> PORTNAME/work/DISTNAME/Makefile) but there is no Makefile because it is
> not needed. The library is compiled!
>
> I thought the "NO_BUILD= yes" would be enough. But it seems I need
> addiotional work.
>
> Again: I want to prevent make to search for */work/*/Makefile!
>
> Can somebody kick me to the right direction?
>
Create a "do-install" target in your ports Makefile that installs the
binary file.

Scot

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